Instead, he absorbed its music by proxy - downloading tracks on peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and Limewire, listening to anime soundtracks by Japanese musicians like Onoken, and playing rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution. Over the phone from his home in North Carolina, the 25-year-old reminds me that, unlike older generations of producers, he was was too young to actually step foot into clubs. But Robinson presents an alternate vision of rave nostalgia - one that’s viewed through the virtual lens of the internet and video games. Of course, plenty of other electronic producers have found smashing success reaching back to the halcyon days of rave culture for inspiration, with releases like Zomby’s Where Were U in ‘92, Jamie XX’s In Color, and Lorenzo Senni’s Persona becoming instant classics, just to name a few. It was as if he’d fed Armin Van Buuren, Aphex Twin, PC Music, and t.A.T.u through a meat grinder, and emerged with a neon-streaked collage of distorted breaks, squeaky synth stabs, and uplifting piano keys, set to hyperactive tempos of 140 to 170+ BPM. Drawing from late ’90s and early 2000s trance, jungle, IDM, speedcore, J-hardcore, and other throwback rave genres, Robinson’s new music was a euphoric embrace of forgotten dancefloors.
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